Harcourt Williams

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Harcourt Williams
Born	(1880-03-30)30 March 1880 Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Died	13 December 1957(1957-12-13) (aged 77) London, England, UK

E G Harcourt Williams (30 March 1880 – 13 December 1957) was an English character actor.

He was a conscientious objector in the First World War; this was said to be the reason why he received no official recognition for his theatre work.

Williams worked in Benson's company and toured Shakespeare in the provinces and was further greatly influenced by Martin-Harvey, and by Ellen Terry, who had coached him when he was in her company.^[1]

In 1929 Lilian Baylis appointed the then 49 year old actor as the new director of the Old Vic and he was responsible for asking John Gielgud to join as a leading actor in the new company he was forming.

Selected filmography

Henry V (1944)
Brighton Rock (1947)
Hamlet (1948)
No Room at the Inn (1948)
The Lost People (1949)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Your Witness (1950)
Green Grow the Rushes (1951)
The Late Edwina Black (1951)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Time Bomb (1953)
The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

References

↑ Ronald Hayman, John Gielgud, Heinemann 1971, p.51

External links

theatre performances in the Theatre Archive, University of Bristol

Harcourt Williams at the Internet Movie Database

Authority control	VIAF: 98305187 ISNI: 0000 0000 7829 1953

Persondata
Name	Williams, Harcourt
Alternative names
Short description	English actor
Date of birth	30 March 1880
Place of birth	Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Date of death	13 December 1957
Place of death	London, England, UK

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